Woman battered in unprovoked street attack

“It's all very well for people to sugegst 'having a go'. Quite apart from the chance of being well and truly hammered by this toad, there's also the chance of being well and truly hammered by his solicitor and/or by the police.”

“Time after time we see the mental illness card played in order to excuse brutally violent behaviour, and yet again we see it succeeding with this mindless thug getting a sentence of just over 2 years (BEP - where are you getting "indefinitely" from?). I've known a number of people with various kinds of mental illness, not a single one would be capable of doing what this individual has done.

Why on earth do the courts in this country essentially excuse such terrible crimes on the grounds of mental state or drug use? This man has clearly demonstrated exactly what he is capable of doing, and such people need to be removed from society for the safety of the public. In this case, he should be a permanent resident in a psychiatric hospital where people are trained to deal with such behaviour.”

“looks like he been hit with the ugly stick”

“Glad I live on Ashley Road, that's me moving in a year.”

“I know this feller quite well. He has been in and out of psychiatric hospital like a yoyo for the past 15 years. This is a terrible, bizarre and out of character thing he has done.”

“@andygeezer - twice in my life I have intervened - once on Queen's Road when I saw a woman being beaten up - woman not keen on being helped. Man chased me. I was in my early 20's. In my 30's I saw a group of 4 young kids 8-11 years pounding a smaller child's head on the pavement. I emerged from that quite badly bruised & scratched. I said than never again it is too risky. Now that I am in my 60's the most I will do is call the police on my mobile. BTW I am female.

As for this case it is truly dreadful & I feel that this individual has serious problems but has somehow not come to the attention of the authorities even though I suspect his behaviour was an issue at school. Three years is clearly a light sentence & I hope the CPS appeal this.

We cannot condone such behaviour but as a civilised society we cannot condone the gruesome punishments advocated by some on this thread. Personality disorders are extremely difficult to treat and dangerous people with this condition often land up in secure hospitals, others often become CEO's.”

“This is a sickening attack by a mentally ill coward on a woman who did not deserve any of this but what sickens me even more is that people did not intervene to help this woman, what is wrong with people that they did not attack this man & defend this woman, a bottle or plank of wood wrapped around this idiots swede would have educated him to leave her alone & i hope he gets some of his own medicine where ever he goes”

“Am i missing something here? This miscreant could have killed a woman who was in the wrong place at the wrong time, think what he would have done to someone he didn't like.
He could be on the streets again in just over 2 years...I give up.”

“Big_Gregory and bykatachua:
The answer to both your questions is easy,because we had a government that for 13 years masquaraded as New Labour and for 13 years carried on with the same old Tory policies,the very reason why the real Tory front bench continually complained that Labour were stealing all their policies,they were in fact to the right of the current lot,at the next general election we will have the same choice as we did at the last one,Tory,Tory,or Tory.”

“I think sane people pretty categorically do not brutally assault random lone females in the street.”